Knotfest: A Happening That Will Awake Your Darkest Senses.

Slipknot is back and they brought a festival with them.

Slipknot has become the lastest band to join the artist DIY festival trend. Knotfest, will take place August 17th in Council Bluffs, Iowa and August 18th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The lineup will include Deftones, Lamb of God, Dethklok (yes, the band from that insane Adult Swim cartoon), Serj Tankian, Cannibal Corpse, The Urge, Prong, Goijira, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and more.

According to an exclusive in Rolling Stone, Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” CrahanÂ said “It’s time for us to really engulf this idea known as Knotfest where we’re in control, we make a day devoted to our mindset, our ideas, the people that we want to play with, the people that we think our fans want to be around.”

Slipknot is promising a “dark carnival experience” so expect to see circus big-top tents, pillars of fire, amusement park rides, burlesque performers, firebreathers, stilt walkers, and a SlipknotÂ museum. Sounds like a familiar twist to the pioneering dark carnival masters, Insane Clown Posse and The Gathering of the Juggalos.

Born during a sweaty, backstage, Bonnaroo downpour, the Chief Festival Junkie's mission in life is to dance, write, and travel to every great festival that this wide world has to offer. While his identity remains a mystery, you may have already met him, probably when he helped himself to your party favors.

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